President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused on things… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after the weary… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified after his… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton had a hell of a first 24 months, even though he, like Trump, enjoyed a congressional majority. Scandal after scandal befell the… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
